Managing the Domain Forwarding Service

Login to your Control Panel, search for the domain name and proceed to the Domain Forwarding Service interface. See details

Click the Manage Domain Forwarding link. This will bring up the Domain Forwarding Management interface.

Note

The Domain Forwarding Service gets activated when you set a destination URL for the first time.

For Resellers: The Domain Forwarding Management interface will be displayed only if the Order belongs to a Customer immediately under you. Otherwise, the below error message with be displayed:

Attention

You are not allowed to perform this action.

Click on the Add New link to add a new Domain Forwarding entry.

Enter the sub-domain prefix, if required, and the destination URL in the text boxes provided. This may be of the form domain.com, www.domain.com, www.domain.com/index/index.html, subdomain.domain.com, etc.. You may also choose http or https protocol from the dropdown menu.

Click the Save button.

Click on the Add New link to add more entries and set multiple destination URLs for different sub-domains of the main domain.

Adding a new entry for a previously added sub-domain will override the older entry and replace it with the newly added destination URL.

Once added, you cannot modify the sub-domain prefix for an entry. You will need to delete the entry and add a new one.

If you enable URL Masking, then visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to your destination website; however the URL in their browser address bar will remain the same. Also known as Stealth Redirection or URL Hiding, this will ensure that your visitors see the original domain name and not the destination domain name.

In case of URL Masking, the Domain Forwarding Server sends the visitor a frames page where the frame source contains the destination URL you have specified. This ensures that the URL in the address bar of the browser does not change though the visitor sees the destination page.

Login to your Control Panel, search for the domain name and proceed to the Domain Forwarding Service interface. See details

Click the Manage Domain Forwarding link. This will bring up the Domain Forwarding Management interface.

Note

The Domain Forwarding Service gets activated, when you click the Manage Domain Forwarding link for the first time.

For Resellers: The Domain Forwarding Management interface will be displayed only if the Order belongs to a Customer immediately under you. Otherwise, the below error message with be displayed:

Attention

You are not allowed to perform this action.

Select either:

the On radio button under URL Masking / Stealth Redirection / URL Hiding section for enabling this feature, or

the Off radio button for disabling it.

Having enabled URL Masking, you may want to set a Page Title and META Tags for the frames page which is sent to the visitor. This can be done by simply putting in your Meta Tags and <TITLE> Tags in the Header Tags box. Whatever you enter in this multi-line box will be output in between <HEAD> </HEAD> Tags on the frames page sent to the visitor. These have to be mentioned in the following format only:

When URL Masking is enabled, the page served to the client is a frames page. Older browsers cannot resolve a frames based page. Moreover, Search Engines have problems trying to spider a frames based website. You may want to set an alternative <NOFRAMES> page content, which would be useful for older browsers and Search Engines. You just need to provide your <NOFRAMES> page HTML content in the No Frames Page Content box. Whatever you enter in this multi-line box will be displayed in between <NOFRAMES> </NOFRAMES> Tags on the frames page sent to the visitor. You may leave box blank, if you do not wish to display <NOFRAMES> page content.